{"id":9627,"date":"2026-08-31T13:11:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/valleyrat-backdoor-hides-in-signed-adware-that-users-add-to-antivirus-exclusions\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:11:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:11:35","slug":"valleyrat-backdoor-hides-in-signed-adware-that-users-add-to-antivirus-exclusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/valleyrat-backdoor-hides-in-signed-adware-that-users-add-to-antivirus-exclusions\/","title":{"rendered":"ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said the attackers built the disguise around QN Wallpaper, a genuine Chinese desktop-wallpaper tool\u00a0The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said the attackers built the disguise around QN Wallpaper, a genuine Chinese desktop-wallpaper tool\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions. Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said the attackers built the disguise around QN Wallpaper, a genuine&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/valleyrat-backdoor-hides-in-signed-adware-that-users-add-to-antivirus-exclusions\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}